TWO weeks ago I started an examination of the recent face-off between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) brought about by the latter’s nuclear weapons program in the course of which it has continually tested missiles despite warnings from the former and other countries.

A FELLOW of the Nigerian Society of Engineers and former director of procurement at the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Dr. Samson Opaluwah, has said that a well thought out local content policy will bridge the infrastructural deficit currently being experienced in the country.

AXXELA Limited has completed and submitted a feasibility study to the Nigerian Gas Processing and Transportation Company, NGPTC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, to build an ELPS-Ibadan-Ilorin-Jebba (EIIJ) pipeline network across the Western and Central states of Nigeria.

THE Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, NIMASA, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, has threatened to arrest contractors at its Science and Technical College, Okoloba, Delta State, which have collected money from the agency and abandoned the work. 

NATIONAL Insurance Commission, NAICOM, has accused telecommunication companies of short-changing insurance firms in premium payments.

NIGERIAN Airspace Management Agency, NAMA, is to entrench a more effective digital accounting system that would meet the growing demands of the agency. This was disclosed by the Managing Director of NAMA, Capt. Fola Akinkuotu, while speaking at a two-day NAMA Accountants Retreat in Lagos.

Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s administration in Enugu State; Olusegun Obasanjo Foundation, OOF; and United States partner, Starkey Hearing Foundation, has commenced a two-day free medical treatment programme for people with hearing impairment in the state.

Out-of-favour Nigeria international Dickson Etuhu is being investigated by the Swedish authorities over allegations that he attempted to influence the outcome of a match in Sweden.

Owerri—NO fewer than 200 optometrists in Imo State have concluded plans to use this year’s World Sight Day to educate and offer free eye care to children.

As part of events marking its 57th Founder’s Day ceremony, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, has established a laptop assembly plant at its Nsukka campus.

A cross section of players of the Super Eagles including coach Gernot Rohr have revealed the teams they will love to face at the World Cup in Russia next year.

Chelsea star Victor Moses has been named in the ceremonial best eleven players of Match day 5 from the World Cup qualifiers by the governing body of African Football, CAF.

A man who can’t tell where the rain began to beat him cannot know where he dried his body — An Igbo epigram IT comes as a pleasant coincidence. Just a few days after the Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, cleared the air on the state’s debt profile, drawing plaudits from the vast majority […]

A commercial motorcyclist and his passenger, Tuesday, sustained varying degrees of injuries when the bike collided with a Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, bus.
According to eyewitnesses, the incident occurred at Idera Bus Stop, outbound Mile 12, when the Okadaman took the BRT corridor.
The eyewitness, who gave his name as Ojo Dayo, said the bus with code number 324, was moving outward Mile 12, while the motorcyclist, coming from Ikorodu, tried to cross the corridor, “unfortunately for him, he was not fast enough as he rammed into the bus, which was also moving on top speed.”
Another eyewitness, Babatunde Anjorin, said the accident attracted sympathisers, who tried to rescue the victims but their efforts were thwarted as some street urchins, popularly called area boys, rushed to the scene to take advantage of the situation.

Police intervene
He added that the urchins were quickly dispersed by some mobile policemen and the victims rushed to a nearby hospital.
The law enforcement agents also prevented total breakdown of law and order at the scene as the bus was prevented from being vandalised.
In a telephone conversation, the Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Task Force, Adebayo Taofik, said the agency will ensure sanity is restored to Lagos roads.

HUMAN rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has accused senior lawyers of “knowing all corrupt judges and court officials,” insisting that, “the information is freely circulated among lawyers. Members of the public also know judges who collect money from them either directly or through lawyers or court clerks.”